Paint Colors used in this picture:

Recommended Kit:

Application

Using a sponge, cover your whole face with your white primer, I suggest that you use something that dries rather quickly and will not flake, like a Mehron cake.

Once the white has dried take a black makeup pencil and draw a circle around your eyes. This will be the empty eyesockets, A good measure for the size of the sockets is to use the top or bottom of your eyebrow as the top of the circle. Use your judgment to decide which is the better size for the look you want.

Using the same pencil, create the outline of the nose you wish to blacken for the skull look

Using a fine sponge applicator, blacken in the eye socket and the nose.

From here things get a little more complicated, I prefer to work from the top of my face to the bottom, so I am less likely to smudge the makeup.

Using the black pencil trace the outlines of the patterns you want, except for the lips.

Most sugar skull masks have petals around the eyes, they do not all have to be the same size. It’s also common to draw flowers on the cheeks, forehead or chin.

For this particular mask she filled the petals with yellow, then rimmed the eye sockets in a green and traced the petals with red to finish the look

To do the lips use a vibrant red then using your black pencil draw straight line stitches from above the lips to below them.